I conducted a 15-minute interview with Brig. Gen. (AF, Ret) Chuck Yeager for the base newspaper in 1983. He was on an hour stopover and waiting for his next flight. A friend of mine who worked in the Protocol office gave me the heads-up Yeager was coming in.
BG Yeager gave a great interview.. he seemed like a down-to-earth guy. I felt like I was talking to a neighbor down the street.
I got to meet former hostages and men of the mission, family members, got to attend reunions, private parties, too
Col Peter Wickwire, hill 881 Vietnam, north or south, I forgot , was my Batalion Commander at Parris Island
The guy who called in an air strike on that mental institution in Grenada was a pilot in HMM-165 with me 1980 and 81
The commanding officer of the first Marines into Afghanistan, Col Andy Frick, was a CH-53 pilot with me in HMM-165 in 1980 off Iran.
General James Mattis was a young captain who used to entertain himself watching me kick box on the hanger deck on the Okinawa in 1980. We wrote a few times about 10 years ago.
Many patriots across the board, GOE people, even Scott Swett :)
one of my friends now is a retired Drill Instructor, his voice is one of the Drill Instructors on the recording THE SOUNDS OF PARRIS ISLAND.
“we will control your lives. You will not do anything unless told to do so. Is that clear?”
I drove General Patton’s TOC when he was the Commander of the 2nd AD. Special duty thing. While he was not his father he was a good soldier.
His opinion of him was that he was very bright but also a.. er.. lets just say the rest rhymed with "Smack Bass"
He (WKC) left a major mess for the next commander to clean up as was his custom.
As an aside Clark is the only soldier I have ever heard him criticize and in twenty years you meet some real interesting guys.
I was Marine General Jack Sheehan’s driver when he was our regimental commander at 8th Marines.